. >> bill: popular, good mayor, going up against christie? >> have you seen the polls? cory booker would get slaughtered. i am sure he wants to do good but he would have a better shot at winning the senate. >> bill: i like him a lot. i think he is a real star. the senate would be for lauten lautenberg lautenberg's seat? do they assume lautenberg would step down? menendez was just re-elected i believe. >> didn't he have trouble? >> but he was re-elected. corey booker, we will see where he goes from there. you are hopeful we are not going to go over the cliff? >> i don't think we will. i think republicans, the indications are you are going to use the debt limit as the big fight. >> that's going to be the big staging ground for a showdown with the white house. and they are just going to let the fiscal cliff thing take care of itself. i learned this recently, remember the sequester. >> yes. >> what a panic that was? >> yes. >> they can cancel that. they can say, we are not going to do t we are going to cancel it. just cancelling the budget cuts saying, never mind. >> that's